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Seattle Starbucks to serve Beer & Wine

A renovated Starbucks opened Monday in Seattle with something new on the menu - beer and wine.

The Olive Way Starbucks on Capitol Hill is the first under the Starbucks brand to offer alcohol.
The beer and wine go on sale after 4 p.m. The idea is to offer drinks and a wider variety of food that will attract customers after the morning espresso rush.
The store closed in July for the renovation that includes a circular coffee bar.

Interesting. Let's see, high octane coffee all day long and some beer or wine to bring you down for the evening. Sounds like they're going for a "balanced diet".

As for becoming 21+ after 4, why? Doesn't happen at the ball park. It's been a while since I've been on a ferry but I assume they still serve beer. They don't make the concession area 21 or older, do they?

I would think that since they have "other fare" Starbucks won't be required to go 21+ just to to serve their new products.

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I can't imagine that it would be any different than any other place that serves alcohol and food....

We'd just sit in the area that serves the food and stay out of any area signed as "restricted" for minors.

They're not going to shut out customers with a 4:00 deadline....and they likely aren't going to take this model system wide....at least not for a while. Although, if the state monopoly on liquor sales changes with the intiative on the ballot, maybe I'll be able to get my McCallan 10yr along with my 1lb of ground beans on #3 at the same time I am browsing for other retail sales items.....hmmm, maybe those starbuck folks are more clever than we know....

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It will bring in more of the liberal anti's. I think it is mandatory they start drinking by no later than 3 pm to stay in their warm fuzzy rainbow filled worlds where the police protect them 24 hours a day, and no harm will ever come to them as long as guns dont come within 4 states of them.

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If you voted for Obama to prove you are not a racist...
what will you do now to prove you are not stupid?

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas

"They who can who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve niether liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin